Fletcher Hodges Jr. (August 6, 1905 – March 13, 2006) was an American who curated the Foster Hall Collection, a collection of documents and music related to Stephen Foster at the University of Pittsburgh, for fifty-one years.
During the past nineteen years, approximately a million copies of these song books have been presented to schools, libraries, churches, musical organizations, and the armed forces, in all parts of the United States and of the world."
Lilly was a friend of University of Pittsburgh Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman,[3] and he later donated the archive in 1937 to Bowman's newly constructed Stephen Foster Memorial on the Pitt campus.
Hodges moved from Indianapolis to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with the collection.
After contraction of pneumonia, Hodges Jr. died on March 13, 2006, at a retirement home in Oakmont, Pennsylvania.